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This CIA/OSI memorandum for file, dated 21 January 1953, documents the meeting of an ad hoc scientific advisory panel — later known as the Robertson Panel — co…

This plain-text glossary is part of the CIA's November 2017 release of digital material recovered from the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound where Osama bin Laden…

This document is a book review published in the CIA's Studies in Intelligence (Vol 58, No. 3, Extracts, September 2014) by Jay Watkins, assessing Annie Jacobse…

This eight-page file reproduces a CIA Office of Security memorandum dated 11 June 1976 from Jerry G. Brown, Deputy Chief of the Security Analysis Group, to the…

This document is Part II of the preliminary transcript derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 5 flight crew technical debriefing. According to the releasi…

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This declassified CIA internal memorandum (ORD-374-95), dated 7 June 1995, updates senior officials on the status of Star Gate, the government's paranormal rem…

A 32-page declassified document from the CIA reading room recording the proceedings of a scientific advisory panel — historically known as the Robertson Panel…

Released as part of a U.S. Department of War (war.gov) UAP records disclosure, this 66-page file documents the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Newark Field O…

This five-page document is an online literature/patent search session output (from the INSPEC and INPADOC databases) captured on 24 March 1992 and held in the…

This CIA report, dated 2 September 1952, aggregates unevaluated eyewitness accounts of unidentified flying objects published in French daily newspapers from Da…

This three-page SAIC internal memorandum (document ID SAICMP94.004), authored by Dr. Edwin May and marked SECRET/NO FORN, reports preliminary findings from thr…

This declassified CIA draft memorandum, dated 21 April 1995 (two days after the Oklahoma City Bombing), records that Ed May of Science Applications Internation…

This is a standardized U.S. Military Mission Report (MISREP), a form used to record the circumstances of military operations, in this case an aerial ISR/reconn…

According to the CIA, this August 1967 document reports on conversations held with Soviet scientists on the subject of unidentified flying objects during a US…

This three-page CIA-released memorandum, dated 25 July 1995 and faxed on 27 July 1995, was authored by Edwin C. May, Ph.D., of the Cognitive Sciences Laborator…

This four-page CIA cable, transmitted from the Guatemala City station to Director and Mexico City in April 1973, documents a station investigation (run through…

This CIA Information Report, prepared in the USSR foreign-intelligence collection stream, records the unevaluated eyewitness account of a 41-year-old US nation…

This 46-page Defense Intelligence Agency document, prepared by the Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence and dated 5 January 1993, reports on a…

This declassified CIA cable, preserved as two overlapping copies, documents internal correspondence about a man named Davidson who wrote an article and forward…

This two-page CIA memorandum, dated 29 May 1953, discusses questions received from Leo (Leon) Davidson directed at Bob Robertson and 'Lloyd' regarding their ac…

This CIA internal memorandum, circulated by buckslip, concerns Dr. Leon Davidson and his latest publication on 'space saucers' titled 'The Air Force and the Sa…

This document is a single-page 'Service to Service' intelligence letter dated 10 May 1982, apparently addressed within a Western intelligence liaison channel (…

This document is a first-hand account authored by a senior U.S. intelligence official (serving as of May 2026) who, in late 2025, participated in a helicopter…